New Flower! (feat. Leon Thomas) (Explicit)

You've grown yourself a flower
In the garden
See I was like eighteen
Wasn't nothin' to my name but overdraft fees
Jealous of the rich tryna get cheese
'Cause I always knew this life wasn't no breeze
And my purpose like Amerie
Was one thing
But where I'm from they called it a far-fetched dream
'Cause baba don't believe in a sure thing
But now he do 'cause my wrist like the west wing
Prezi prezi prezi
I had to grow my own garden
Plant the seeds but I was faint hearted
The courage it took to get this **** started
Meant a new flower had to get sprawlin'
All my friends was havin' college fun
Me I didn't have the college funds
In my head is where I be at
Couldn't let the petals die just for a Fiat
Believe that
You've grown yourself a flower
In the garden
Look I was on 145th and Saint Nick
Takin' that A-Train down to the mix
Complex wasn't really payin' me ****
And Def Jam had me gettin' sandwiches
Got one for Big Sean but at least he tipped
And that twenty saved my life that week
New York but I'm feelin' Memphis bleak
I was eatin' plain rice and I'm far from cheap
Ha nigga ha ha ha
Yeah bury me before I'm a burden
DIY 'til my conscious certain
But the garden can't grow
If it ain't got purpose true
Carin' for the seeds since 2014
I been waterin' this ************ every damn week
I didn't know where I'd be at
Growth can't slow but it bloom now we see that
Believe that
You've grown yourself a flower
In the garden
I used to do gardening
With grandpa Aminé
He force you to plant
And keep it maintenance and everything
So after you come from school
Then he go to the garden
And maintaining it uh
Giving it water stuff like that
This is how I grow up
And when the sun hits your skin
I hope you know you belong where you been
And we'll grow that's for sure but in the end
We'll be back in the ground once again
Yeah look we all want success
But can you grow more with less
'Cause money change everything
I see the effects
Lifetime friends think I think of 'em less
No nigga I am depressed
If people don't like me
Then I don't get a check
Which means both my parents are stayin' in debt
And I prefer to be the only one that carries the stress
**** if I never got rich
Maybe sunset wouldn't have me sick
'Cause that crash almost toe-tagged my sis'
Is it my fault that she even had that risk
But **** what I can't control
The best advice I'll get from myself alone
And after all that Portland rain is combined
All I need is thirteen months of sunshine
And when the sun hits your skin
I hope you know you belong where you been
Been
And we'll grow that's for sure but in the end
We'll be back in the ground once again